Author: Steve B
Date: 10:50:50 08/01/05
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>Was there one common defect?? An Achilles heel?? yes the diplay screens all became defective over the years and the pieces no longer visable it was a touch screen display in many Savants the actual processor still works but the pieces can no longer be seen some Savants still have a working touch screen that can sense the moves but not display the pieces so by hooking up a special Novag Printer one can still use it to display the computer's moves and still play games with it > >>there were tabletops released that had a combination of a pressure sensory >>board and a small LCD screen to show the pieces but this is different than just >>having LCD pieces would be much larger in size > >Are you referring to something like the Ivan ll "The Conqueror" from Excalibur?? yes that's one there were many.. the Saitek Prisma ,Simultano,Renaissance board with special display module,or several Radio Shack computers like the 2150,2150l,2250XL..etc.etc but none of these has large LCD pieces like the ones you are talking about Best Steve
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